1 Shoshana Bean to Hit the Road for Fall Tour Following Tony Win "Each label, and OKeh is no exception, needs a good balance of established artists and newcomers to reflect what is happening in the ...

Sony Classical is relaunching historic OKeh Records as its primary jazz imprint. Overseeing OKeh is Chuck Mitchell, and Wulf Muller. Upcoming releases include work by Bill Frisell, David Sanborn… By ...

Last month, I wrote an essay for The Atlantic about Sony's relaunch of the historic OKeh Records imprint, noting the absence of black American jazz artists among the label's initially announced batch ...

In September 1918, German-American Otto K E Heinemann, manager of the US office of the German Odeon records, decided, given events in Europe, that it might be wise to start a US-based record label. He ...

Update, May 7: In a Q&A with John Murph, Wulf Müller and Chuck Mitchell have responded to the issues raised in the below essay. OKeh Records could have a new race problem—a peculiar predicament ...

J.D. Harris (far left) spent most of his life in Asheville, North Carolina, where he took part in the Okeh recording sessions in 1925. A century ago, OKeh Records made the first attempt at capturing ...

After unleashing on the world in 1986 the smooth jazz megahit “Double Vision” – and a torrent of imitators for years afterward – the last thing wanted to do was to repeat themselves. Unfortunately, ...